Ugh that’s one of my greatest fears. A build-up of health problems to the point where I can even think straight which would probably be because of my health anxiety that I was recently diagnosed with. Do any of those affect you on a daily basis? I’m gonna assume that you don’t obsess over all of those problems though. If so, major kudos to you. I probably couldn’t stop worrying.
Lemres… oh ya im sick everyday just depends on how bad. Some days are worse then others. Again dunno how much old all of you guys are or when in the tournament scene but its one of the reasons I stopped going. I wasnt losing when I quit, I had just won some big east coast thing at the time, but the travel etc takes to much out of me health wise and “heart wasnt in it” either so thats why I stopped and just randomly make combo videos every now and then. As for obsessing about it no I dont, but im still very bitter about my life and how everything turned out. I didnt have a awesome life growing up, and then once I got older and became “good looking” I got a job as a model only for my doctors to get me sick etc. Its old news now I guess but im still bitter like I said about it. I remember after I was dying and got out of the hosptial doctor basically was like you should feel lucky youll never have to work again all this kinda crap. Well I can tell you malpractice is not very kind in michigan, basically unless your doctors actually kill you, you dont get much… and disablity does not pay very well either lol
Dialup how the hell do you stay looking like Ken from street fighter when your rocking it with Mr Burns bag of deceases, did part of that malpractice include injecting your ass with the super soldier serum?
Heres a quick pic of me when I check out suckys abs
lol ha… I actually need to cut here soon to get back into 6 pack mode… been trying to ‘bulk’ most the summer… And like I always say you need to find a perspective in life that keeps you going whether or not its from a negative or a positive place. Im not really religious so I dont believe there is anything else waiting for me after all this, so I try to just make the most of what I have right now. Not getting my hopes up if that makes sense.
Oh no no… I didnt say I cant get laid period… Trust me im pretty pop, ive had girls do a lot of crazy stuff for me over the years. But ive also had a lot of shitty social experiences as well. Ive tried to go out with guys throw them bones wing man for them, only to hear when im not around they have been makign me look bad to everyone else. Ive had girls come up to me that I dont even know that hate me just because of how I look that sorta stuff… So you got that going on with the health stuff… And then health wise I can say I have low T, and that makes me have a pretty bi polar sex drive. A lot of times I can be with girls and I just litterally dont care. So it sucks, and then other times ill just feel like having sex but say im sick in and bed so well… not much going on there. Makes it hard to do stuff. And I honestly dont like having sex with girls im not into. Like to try to explain something that happens to me quite a bit. OK they say girls are more emotional than visual. Its kinda made me like that, like you gotta be super hot for me to give a fuck. Other wise like I need hot scenarios to get me going other wise my dick just doesnt care. But unfortunately I have a lot of morals, and a lot of the hottest stuff you can do, is kinda assholeish. Like ive gone out wtih girls, who have then introduced me to their boyfriend and then invite me back to their place like to fuck them. Hella awkward. Of course after I get home I hate myself for turning it down, but I mean something like that to me is exciting I guess so more emotional kinda like a girl? Its kinda hard for me just to have a random girl come up to me and she wants to do something and care because im just to tired from being sick all the time. Like my blood isnt pumping to go. I Guess another example I can give is they actually give me revatio to take 3 times a day. Which is what viagra use to be. Im suppose to take that because my blood no longer flows correctly and I cant heal anymore if I get sick. So even taking viagra 3 times a day and I just feel nothing. Cuz if your not horny it doenst work… Oh well point of that story is dont get low T it sucks. Yea theres meds for it I know but I hate the idea of being on testostrone for the rest of my life so ive never taken it. =/
duuuuuuuuuuuude.
in all seriousness…we need to talk.
Cuz I’m in the same boat as you.
I’ve been on disability for years now too.
I got hashimoto’s disease around 2002…but because of mismanagement, incompetency, just malpractice all around I went 2 & 1/2 years without the needed thyroid hormone treatment and it damaged…everything.
I remember when I finally did get the proper diagnosis and got started on treatment my endo told me, “after going so long with thyroid hormone you have major damage to all of your internal organs.” Which I knew was true because I had everything from liver damage to brain damage to even the corneas of my eyes collapsing. was seeing everything in double and in Nintendo 3ds vision. depth perception fucked.
but the very worst thing was that…my adrenals burnt out. and my testes. So I too have low T and low adrenal hormone.
So now I have Hashi’s, plus Addison’s aaaaaand early andropause.
I…man I gotta take a ton of prescripts and non prescript shit and I still don’t feel well.
I gotta take Testosterone injections, hcg injections, arimidex, clomid, hydrocortisone, adrenal cortex glandular, was taking old formula isocort(ran out…this particular stuff saved my life while at my worst during my adrenal crisis), desiccated thyroid extract, some potassium iodide, celtic sea salt, a ton of multi vits, yohimbine hcl and tyrosine for the epinephrine increase…progesterone.
well, you get the idea.
but you and I know what most of these guys who have never been near death sick know…
which is that the u.s. health care system…just doesn’t work!
I mean, I went 2 & 1/2 years without getting the proper diagnosis cuz the docs took none of my claims seriously. now matter how many times I kept going to the hospital stating to them that I was dying, and that I didn’t feel well enough to be released as an outpatient…and after 2 & 1/2 years the hospital’s diagnosis was that I was a hypochondriac. that I was “imagining” my malaise.
its like, wtf man.
how fuckin retarded???
smh in disgust.
switched hospitals and started threatening people with lawyers and lawsuits cuz I couldn’t afford the same bs happening twice cuz I was on my last legs. I had…no life, no energy left. I’d say like 6 more months of life cuz I don’t think I coulda gone another year without thyroid hormone man.
I was sleeping in the sitting position every night cuz I couldn’t lay my head horizontal without feeling a bone crushing pressure in my head…which was my brain dying from unbalanced/deficient neurotransmitters causing so much vascular constriction.
I mean I was bad man.
so after switching to a better hospital, that gave me, that took my claims of dying seriously, and gave me timely proper diagnosis, “hashimoto’s disease” …it didn’t even matter cause every damn doctor at that hospital,and I saw a myriad of docs, they gave my thyroid hormone med dose too low.
my TSH was a 9.
A 9!
that number is supposed to be around a 1.
my thyroid…specifically my synthroid dose was too low for 5 long years.
so…2+1/2 years of no thyroid + 5 years of too low of a thyroid dose = Addison’s + Too low testosterone.
my adrenals and testes just plain old burnt out and starved for thyroid hormone.
so then last year, my adrenals crashed and I started getting really scary life threatening symptoms.
my adrenals were so burnt out I couldn’t maintain blood pressure high enough to…to live man. my blod pressure would drop so low my respiration would just plain stop.
like literally stop.
mostly while I was sleeping.
so I would…my blood pressure would slowly but surely keep dropping throughout the day…so but the 8 - 12 hour awake mark my blood pressure would be so low I barely could feel a pulse…and when blood pressure drops, needless to say, repiration would become so shallow I felt like I was suffocating. then when I would go to bed…which you should never do btw when blood pressure is that low…when I would fall asleep I would be awakened by not breathing anymore.
worse off, when I would wake up I would find myself not able to move a single muscle, paralyzed, totally immobilized, and unable to breathe for a good 20 seconds and I would have to wait for the adrenaline rush to kick in from the experience of it all for the adrenaline rush to restart my breathing and control of my body(able to move again).
And the adrenaline rush was very very weak btw.
of course since my adrenals were weak which is what was causing the blood pressure drops to begin with.
I, by being sick for years, and reading up on the science of endocrinology…I knew, if my blood pressure would drop after a certain number of wakeful hours, and that when I would awaken the next day feeling my blood pressure normal…I knew that it couldn’t be my heart or my lungs that were the culprit here. I knew it had to be either the central part of the brain, or the adrenals that was failing. cuz those are the only two parts of the body that control blood pressure chemically. since my blood pressure wasn’t 24/7 at all times low, but would only drop after a certain number of hours of being awake…and cuz I know the brain/adrenals have different metabolism rates between wakefulness and sleep…I knew the culprit to my blood pressure drops could only be either my adrenals or the medulla oblongata section of the brain.
went to the ER and the doc appointments over and over and over again…stating my extremely serious life threatening symptoms of autonomic failure occurring. And telling them to specifically check my brain and/or my adrenals.
…
and it was all,…“yeah , yeah,”…or…"you’re waking up not breathing anymore? hey, there’s a first time for everything."
or, …“sir, sir…this is a ER…we don’t do cortisol tests here. but we can refer you to a specialist…which will give you an appointment, 6 months from now.”
the fuck?
the fuck am I supposed to do for those 6 months while I wait to see a referred specialist while I’m having my blood pressure drop to the point my breathing stops?
hope I don’t die in my sleep?
Suck a dick American health care system like no joke man.
This fucking country’s health care system is 100% broken.
like…the only reason I’m still here, is that I was very very lucky in happening to have 2 things in my possession.
1)I happened to have a bottle of hydrocortisone 20mg frome years ago when I first switched from synthroid * cough cough* I mean snake oil synthroid to god blessed desiccated thyroid extract and
2)I was verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry lucky to happen to have in my possession a full bottle of old formula isocort.
I don’t know if you have ever tried the old formula isocort when they used sheep adrenals…
but this stuff has no comparison or equal on the market. nothing like it.
cuz they, the company that made isocort,…even if the company never stated it officially, this isocort shit had actual epinephrine in it. and a powerful dose without a doubt. just…pure adrenaline…and some cortisol/aldosterone aka adrenal hormones in general. but what made it special was that it had actual adrenaline in it.
which, I do not exaggerate…saved my life.
cuz I had to take a pellet like every single night to raise my blood pressure just enough to live.
I am 1000% sure if didn’t luckily happen to have those 2 different drugs in my possession that i acquired from years and years ago…I’m 1000% sure I would not be alive right now.
cuz the only thing that kept my heart beating, my blood pressure up enough for autonomic failure not to occur, was those two drugs man.
I finally got the tests, the needed tests, of cat scan/mri for the brain…and the ansar/adrenal hormone blood tests…
9 MONTHS LATER!
9 LONG MONTHS from the day the symptoms of my adrenal crisis first appeared…to the day I got diagnosed with extreme Addison’s disease.
9 months.
9.
un…acceptable!
to have to endure,
something as serious, as an adrenal crisis, for 9 months…just…ugh.
Doctors.
gotta luv em.
so, I too shall be taking these idiot doctors to court. cuz they are not getting away with this shit.
9 months of every single night being on the brink of death is…
well, anyway.
yunno bro. we are in the same boat here.
we made the mistake…the biggest mistake one can make.
the mistake of getting sick in America with its dysfunctional, broken, inept for a 1st world nation health care system.
doctors in this country don’t know what they’re doing. the entire system doesn’t benefit the patient. it only benefits doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and health insurance companies.
I can tell you stories of where I would find myself having to teach the ER doc how to read a blood test result. that not fun. teaching the doc that sends you home what the numbers and chemical initials on a blood result mean.
or correcting docs when they say retarded shit like, “there’s no such thing as adrenal fatigue. They either work perfectly or stop working altogether.”
facepalm
then you gotta explain for a good 10 minutes the little thing called the scientific fact which is the existence of Addison’s disease and Cushing’s syndrome to said chimp brained doctor.
double facepalm.
ay yah yay.
9 months later my neurologist, which, btw, is a certified genius unlike most knuckleheaded doctors who is also the utmost professional,…said to me , “in regards, to your Ansar test, sir, its like you have no adrenals. your adrenaline doesn’t kick in during the standing portion of the test. that’s scary. how are you even alive?”
:-/
at least the man, unlike the rest of the useless mob or moronic docs, did his job…to the T. props.
@dialupsucky
but yeah bro.
I wanna ask you some questions though.
1)do you take Synthroid for your hashi’s?
or something else?
2)if you have Crohn’s and Hashimoto’s…have you been checked for Celiac disease? that gluten intolerance.
3)have you had your adrenals checked?
that’s your cortisol/aldosterone/dhea/epinephrine and norepinephrine levels.
lots of people with Hashimoto’s end up sooner or later with adrenal fatigue of some degree.
4)how are you feeling hornywise regarding low testosterone?
I know my libido is kaput.
way low sex drive/libido.
what treatment you working on for it. I already explained what I’m doing. doesn’t help much tbh. but I’m working on it.
TheKingOfparody… I actually got doctor stuff to do today so I dont have time to respond to everything but sorry to hear that all this happened to you dude. But as for my low T. Yea they first offered me the deodorant sorta stuff. But sounded like to much of a hassle since I cant touch anyone for a couple hours after etc. And even with my insurance it still was gonna cost me quite a bit of money…
So then they offered me clomid. Well I treid that but I already have high estrogen so though it raised my T a little bit, it also raised my estrogen at the same rate. And I was never able to get into a regemine of taking it. A lot of times it just made me feel even worse. So they tried giving me arimidex but man that stuff is hard to dose as well, so ive pretty much given up on it. Although I have randomly taken arimidex just by itself a couple times when my estrogen is getting high. Also saying all this at the end of the day it never raised my free T. My free T has never risen what so ever no matter what ive tried. I just had it checked here recently and I was a 9.4 out of 10-30 lol
The shots are the next step, but im just to afraid to be on something like that and poking myself the rest of my life. I just hate that idea, plus im on a lot of low T forums and I read a lot of horror stories about dudes actually feeling worse for another few months trying to get dialed in. And I cant imagine feeling worse…
Anyway I gotta go for now got stuff to do before doctors so ill try to respond to the rest later